How do ocean mammals like whales and seals get their drinking water?
This is my answer I gave from only a few days ago to this question ” HOW DO MARINE MAMMALS DRINK WATER” – Although some marine mammals are known to drink seawater at least on occasion, it is not well established that they routinely do so. They have other options: sea-dwelling mammals can get water through their food, and they can produce it internally from the metabolic breakdown of food (water is one of the by-products of carbohydrate and fat metabolism). The salt content of the blood and other body fluids of marine mammals is not very different from that of terrestrial mammals or any other vertebrates: it is about one third as salty as seawater. Because a vertebrate that drinks seawater is taking in something three times saltier than its blood, it must get rid of the excess salt by producing very salty urine. In the seal and sea lion species, for which measurements exist, the animals’ urine contains up to two and a half times more salt than seawater does and seven or eight times more
